Satan:His Motives and Methods by Lewis Sperry Chafer

I just finally finished reading this book about Satan. I love sports and am competitive. When a team prepares for a game, they get to know their enemy as much as possible. Our ultimate enemy in Satan, knowing what the Word of God says about him is very helpful. My favorite part of this book came in chapter 10 where Chafer points out that "it was necessary for Satan to rob the church, to a great extent, of her 'blessed hope' of Christ's return, before he could attract attention to his own attempts at world improvement, and establish his own authority as ruler over this age." He goes on to say that many Christians today do not look forward to Christ's coming again. This is exactly what Satan wants because if he can take away our greatest hope, no other lost soul will want what we have and we will never be asked to give the reason for the hope that lies within us. Time and time again we see in scripture that the only way that the early church was able to endure such persecution was because they were looking for the day that they would see Christ face to face. We need to be more like the early church, especially in the culture that we live in today. I echo what John said at the end of Revelation, "Come, Lord Jesus."